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High-speed rail link to London back on track

A HIGH-SPEED rail link that would whisk passengers between London and Scotland
in under three hours is back on track after a minister revealed the Scottish
government has a green light to engage with the company behind the proposal.

Keith Brown, the cabinet secretary for infrastructure and cities, made the
disclosure at a business breakfast hosted last week by The Sunday Times and
Brodies LLP, one of Scotland’s leading law firms.

Under current plans drawn up by High Speed Two (HS2), the company set up to
deliver the project, the line starts in London but will extend only as far
as Leeds.

Brown said efforts by the Scottish government to convince Westminster that
250mph route should extend to Edinburgh and Glasgow had paid off.

His comments come a month after the publication of a report by HS2 into broad
options for upgraded and high-speed railways to the north of England